niels lesniewski. caller: ok. thank you. therelad that you are up following the best and what is real news -- news reporting. we don't get much of that anymore. a lot of yelling on the radio. why is itpoint is -- that nobody mentions the 100 to 200 nuclear weapons that israel has had since -- has been working on and perfecting since the 1950's? this is a, you know, a well-known point all over the world that we don't seem to discuss it. host: i am going to jump in because we are going to be short on time. thanks very much for the call. guest: that is another area where people who are supportive of -- i guess, people who are skeptics of israel's intentions in this whole matter have been raising the issue of the unknown exactly but often perceived to be the case situation with the israel and nuclear firepower. and i think that is another thing where you will continue to hear that, but it always gets very tricky around here whether people are for or against the iran deal. is right. it is something people on capitol hill do not t

is niels guest lesniewski who writes for "roll call." yesterdayhed a story from an interview that mitch mcconnell conducted with nyt -- myt tv. [video clip] >> we have some big differences about what we are going to spend. the senate democrats have a big enough number to prevent us from doing things. they have prevented us from doing any of the bills we want to do, thereby forcing the negotiation when we go back in after labor day, which i will be engaged in with the administration and others to try to sort out how much we are going to spend and where we are going to spend it. ,ost: and niels lesniewski based on this, he goes on to say that to prevent any government shutdown there will be a debate over planned parenthood. what can we expect? guest: what it looks like we're headed toward -- and senator mcconnell was fairly straightforward in that conversation with the television station in eastern kentucky -- is that there is going to be some kind of high-level negotiation over what the top line funding level means -- needs to be from oct

is niels guest lesniewski who writes for "roll call." yesterdayhed a story from an interview that mitch mcconnell conducted with nyt -- myt tv. [video clip] >> we have some big differences about what we are going to spend. the senate democrats have a big enough number to prevent us from doing things. they have prevented us from doing any of the bills we want to do, thereby forcing the negotiation when we go back in after labor day, which i will be engaged in with the administration and others to try to sort out how much we are going to spend and where we are going to spend it. ,ost: and niels lesniewski based on this, he goes on to say that to prevent any government shutdown there will be a debate over planned parenthood. what can we expect? guest: what it looks like we're headed toward -- and senator mcconnell was fairly straightforward in that conversation with the television station in eastern kentucky -- is that there is going to be some kind of high-level negotiation over what the top line funding level means -- needs to be from oct

niels lesniewski. caller: ok. thank you. therelad that you are up following the best and what is real news -- news reporting. we don't get much of that anymore. a lot of yelling on the radio. why is itpoint is -- that nobody mentions the 100 to 200 nuclear weapons that israel has had since -- has been working on and perfecting since the 1950's? this is a, you know, a well-known point all over the world that we don't seem to discuss it. host: i am going to jump in because we are going to be short on time. thanks very much for the call. guest: that is another area where people who are supportive of -- i guess, people who are skeptics of israel's intentions in this whole matter have been raising the issue of the unknown exactly but often perceived to be the case situation with the israel and nuclear firepower. and i think that is another thing where you will continue to hear that, but it always gets very tricky around here whether people are for or against the iran deal. is right. it is something people on capitol hill do not t

is niels guest lesniewski who writes for "roll call." yesterdayhed a story from an interview that mitch mcconnell conducted with nyt -- myt tv. [video clip] >> we have some big differences about what we are going to spend. the senate democrats have a big enough number to prevent us from doing things. they have prevented us from doing any of the bills we want to do, thereby forcing the negotiation when we go back in after labor day, which i will be engaged in with the administration and others to try to sort out how much we are going to spend and where we are going to spend it. ,ost: and niels lesniewski based on this, he goes on to say that to prevent any government shutdown there will be a debate over planned parenthood. what can we expect? guest: what it looks like we're headed toward -- and senator mcconnell was fairly straightforward in that conversation with the television station in eastern kentucky -- is that there is going to be some kind of high-level negotiation over what the top line funding level means -- needs to be from oct